Using the map on your profile

Hi Kasper,
I liked the map on your profile a lot, the one saying where you lived, traveled, and hitched. I went and copied it into my own page, I hope you don't mind. If you do, please let me know, I'll remove it :)

ridiculous!

that would be nice!

It is going to be too many weekends before I unexpectedly turn up there again, I miss it already.. along with the Casa! Kalgoorlie is worlds apart. I suspect the separation will soon drive me to kick off some sort of collective down here :) lets see. Its fun to edit Hitchwiki, hehe! Western Aus is so undiscovered.. not for long.. :) --Dear Sarah 19:48, 23 September 2010 (CEST)

Haha, great! I'll put the kettle on. To tempt you more, I'm already as tanned from 2 hrs in the sun here than all of July in Amsterdam... --Dear Sarah 03:02, 24 September 2010 (CEST)

re:how to ask for precision in an article

thanks for answering! yep, i know that, but does it mean i have to check all the versions ? (there s no clear indication about this specific change). plus many of them are from visitors (just IP). Or should i ask somewhere/someone else? if so,the "discussion" page for budapest seems most appropriate (more precise than the forum), but doesnt seem very active.
P.S.: same as Rocky : should i talk on your page or mine? are you notified when i answer you on my talk page?
thanks! Stupidfrog 11:18, 7 October 2008 (CEST)

re:Highways

no problem, i'll try to find a good picture of me and my friend hitching on a highway in France.

P.S.: is this the right way to do wikitalk? wiki's are kinda new to me ;) --Rocky 15:03, 18 September 2008 (CEST)

Great, pictures are very welcome! Yeah, writing on someone's talk page will inform them about that. Usually it's added at the end of the page, but anyway, I should archive all the old stuff that's on my talk page. guakasite, wikitalk 16:47, 18 September 2008 (CEST)

Resemblance to WikiTravel

Hello! Whatever you did worked. There's now no resemblance, so no problem!

You do know, I suppose, that you can type "project:" and let the software sort out the long prefix?

No I didn't. :)

So I suggest that you grab those "s-apostrophe" pages and Move them all to the corresponding "project:" page if that's what you meant for them (which you probably did, as they are "About" and "Why this wiki?", etc).

Separating verifiable fact from opinion and personal stories

Wiki Name

Anarchopedia

Hoj Guaka. Maybe you want to check what I am doing on this page Anarchopedia:Hitchhiking Wiki datadump, basically the same as what was done with infoAnarchy wiki. I think it is useful to have redundancy, so that the content stays should one website go offline for any reason. I am not sure how many articles to move, I think I will just start with the ones I find most interesting. Rev 22 21:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, redundancy can be good, but it can also lead to double work. Can you contact me by mail? kas per DOT sou ren AROBASE gmail PUNTO com. There's always Google cache if one website is offline for a bit. Guaka 23:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

My initial idea was not to move all data, just the most interesting and relevant. Relevant data attracts users, and eventually contributors. Every article will link to articles on this project so the score search engine for it will increase. Google cache is not reliable as a backup, except for reasonably popular articles in popular websites, but even then recreating mediawiki code from cached data (html) is a suboptimal solution (except if formatted text is all you care about). Rev 22 02:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

great stuff

This is really nice work. Let me know if you would like us to promote in via the wikia spotlight when you're ready. You should also talk to bill on http://World.wikia.com about cross-linking! Gil (talk) 15:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - I believe Bill added you to World Wikia

As for ads, I know they are a bit annoying, but we use 100% of the ad revenue to pay for our servers and bandwith (and still lose money) so I hope you understand that we need to cover our costs. Given our topics are more fun and less "educational" than Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales decided that we would not easily get donations, so he made Wikia a commercial business. We could put the ads on the top of the page instead of the right hand side if you found that easier on your eyes :-). World had an that made us take them off temporarily, I expect they'll be back as soon as the engineers have time to quickly fix the code. Also, I couldn't tell from your comment if you wanted your wiki promoted in the spotlight. Thanks! Gil (talk) 22:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I like it!..

I just fuckin like this wiki - nearly as much as I like hitchhiking... :-) --Speckmade 18:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Any time

Moving help

When the next Wikia database dump is imported at hitchwiki.org I want to go through all pages, check if they are the same on both sites and place the {{moved}} template at Wikia. It would be great to have some help with that. The next database dump will probably be available on the 27th of November.

confused...

Can you please tell (maybe at a prominent place) about what is now what, what is related to what in which way?

This Wiki moved from hitchhikingguide.org to hitchhiking.wikia.com - and then? to hitchwiki.org? Is this now the official, persistent version, hte version to edit? What happened to hitchhiking.wikia.org? What is that world.wikia.org it now redirects to? (Seems like it serves exactly the same purpose like Wikitravel... Where does it come from?)

Why does it show me my old userpage here and complains when I try to log in here, that there is no user of that name? Do I have to recreate an account here?

Questions over questions that I've not been able to answer completely on my own...
--Speckmade 17:50, 12 Dec 2006 (UTC)

The wiki recently move from hitchhiking.wikia.org to hitchwiki.org. We transfered all the pages (including userpages) to here, but unfortunately, wikia doesn't let one export user-accounts, so you will have to register here again. wikia made the old url redirect to world.wikia.com, and we can do nothing about that. This seems to confuse a lot of people :(. Anyway, now we have our own domain and own databases, so the wiki will stay here forever :) --MrTweek 21:34, 12 December 2006 (CET)

B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement.

I expect a major apology from you, and please remove every last word of my content you've copied here or elsewhere unless you can figure out a way to do what you're supposed to do according to the license: credit the author(s). Also remember that, for other Wikitravel content, GFDL and CC by-sa are not compatible. 59.161.79.82 05:38, 20 December 2006 (CET) (wikitravel:User:Jpatokal)

Ok, I'm very sorry. I know CC-BY-SA and GFDL aren't compatible, and I see that I made a mistake when I copied the text without a more specific mention.

I saw your other edits on this wiki. I hope Tokyo and Japan are okay on this wiki now? Guaka 13:27, 20 December 2006 (CET)

Autostop Argentina wiki

Hi Guaka, i´m from argentina. From the comunity of Autostop Argentina we are trying to create a wiki at wikia.com. If you could give me a hand in any way (i filled the request form of wikia) i´ll thanks to you.
so sory for my poor english.
Autostop Argentina

Hi! Super! Maybe we can set up a Spanish version of Hitchwiki, also hosted by MrTweek? Seria mucho mas chevere!

Also, moving away from Wikia was not too hard, but it didn't go as smooth as expected.

Couch Surfing

Yeah, I've looked into that site. A good majority of the people who've offered places to stay I've met off that site. Hoping to find more.

Cool! Usually it works better once you get more contacts on CS. Have fun! Guaka 10:30, 8 March 2007 (CET)

Mapping locations -- Google Maps?

Hi!

I'm sure you know that Google has recently opend up their API in Google Maps just a little, allowing you to create and share locations/KML (shapes, points and lines) created via the Google Maps interface. I realize that another system is being used on various articles in Wikipedia (to tell you the truth, I can't find such an article right now -- if you know what I'm talking about, could you point me in the right direction?). Have you considered this issue on hitchwiki.org? I.e., should we stick to one solution for providing on-line mapping of coordinates for hitching places? Has such a solution already been implemented? Ideally, such a solution should be open, editable and transparent. I've added a link to a Google Maps point I have created for Janki, a popular hitching spot in Warsaw. The problem is that the point is not editable by anyone besides me (of course, anyone may simply change the link.) What are your thoughts on this? Also, what would be a more appropriate place to post such questions, so that all the editors may read and comment on the issue? (Still new here).

Pozdraw,
Arthur

At the moment, we use to add direct links to www.liftershalte.info to articles, and mark the hitching spots there. Liftershalte.info is based on google maps, created by me and hosted on the same Server as hitchwiki.

I'm planning to add the possibility to include liftershalte-maps directly into hitchwiki-articles, but this doesn't seem to be trivial and I don't have much time at the moment, so it could take a while to implement this.

mauritania

got plenty !! how do i upload them ?? just had a 12 hour shift so my brain is maybe functioning at a less impressive level than it should... i got one uploaded to the Choum page but it's full size and not thumbnailed...

Awesome! I added some formatting to the Choum picture. Check it out, but don't worry too much about that. Usually, if you provide some information about location and such, someone will add it to some pages on this wiki :) and if you add it yourself without formatting, someone (often me, or Philipp) will make it look nice. Guaka 09:14, 14 April 2007 (CEST)

Video plugins

great ! looks better... hopefully encourage some people to take the train, it's pretty good ! i have a video too if there's any way that can be incorporated...

Hmm, cool. There are MediaWiki plugins for Google Video and YouTube, so MrTweek or I could install them and then you could upload it to those sites and tell us where to find the video :) Guaka 06:52, 18 April 2007 (CEST)

Image background

Hey, do you maybe know how to fix the background of the images of the Template:Potn so that they appear with the same backgroud color like on the main page? (without white borders). platschisite, wikitalk 21:21, 18 January 2008 (CET)

Video Plugin

Hi, I saw you installed the kaltura video plugin. I'm from the Kaltura team and wanted to know if everything went smoothly, if you had any problems and also to collect any feedback you might have. Thx, IdoSet 09:23, 2 June 2008 (CEST)

Hi again, I started a video on my user page - how to hitch-hike safely. I thought it could be a video demo based on the article. Would appreciate your contributions... Thx, IdoSet 09:22, 25 June 2008 (CEST)

openid

Hmm, I just logged in with an OpenID and then I was able to log in to my account afterwards. I'll check the conversion now. guaka 12:25, 30 September 2008 (CEST)

It's working now, no idea how but it works. great stuff! Platschi 15:38, 30 September 2008 (CEST)

Turkey

Well, never leave your stuff in a truck, esp. not when crossing borders ;-) Had similar experiences when going from Bulgaria to Serbia, waited for the truck more than 5 hours. Where are you going at the moment? Well, let me know when you reached Syria ;) Platschi 14:51, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep yep. Just started an article about border crossings and spread some more useful info. :) guaka 22:07, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Review

Hi thanks for that, I was just feeling a bit lost with all the structure and on how to get back into the writing. Especially as matter to keep my writings systematic, but also maybe to ensure a certain similarity of the information throughout the various cities and countries? We keep in touch about that!
I definitely can make some entry for Djibouti! Maplefanta 00:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Pleasure and no worries, for most of them I tried to make some equal adjustment between the various pages. I will still work in it. I seem to mainly have a problem of finding a structure to follow when I start a new page. Maplefanta 02:55, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Hitchwiki Maps Questions

Hi guaka. I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! --Paluch 17:30, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

French version

Hi Guaka hoe gaat het? I would like to make changes in the interface of the french wiki (spelling and translation, begining with this ugly Acceuil instead of accueil). I guess that it is required to become an admin to do that. So can I become one? Otherwise I could also ask you to do the changes if you have time;) --Kimdime69 22:19, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

And help me to understand why my adaptation of the countries template fr:Modèle:Infobox Pays doesn't work (for exemple {{langue}} displayed even if the information is fullfiled) Cheers.--Kimdime69 23:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

bork

I will edit personal page. I am planning to do that on Wikipedia for a long time but somehow I love to be nobody who is contributing to the community. Plus you look like guy who picked me up in Germany (500 km with him) You are exactly the same xDDDD

Plus plus I didn't notice how to put personal comments so I just added them to he articles because I think there are very useful to the exciting ones as little improvment. For example you have Duisburg where I stucked and if somebody have written that Düsseldorf is just few Euros away I wouldn't sleep on gas station that night etc...

Czech republic

Yeah, thanks for being attentive! I don't even remember I reverted it! :) guaka 16:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikitravel

TODO: move to FAQ :)

Why doesnt hitchwiki work together with wikitravel? It seems to me senseless that there are two wiki sites with city-like pages. -- 11:03, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Practical answer: Wikitravel is owned and controlled by a company, they put ads on the site and you can't download the database dump (I've asked for this, even before Wikitravel was sold out to Internet Brands). This is quite different from how we want to keep Hitchwiki.

Content related answer: 1. I don't think Wikitravel would want to include extended information about hitchhike spots inside cities. 2. Hitchhikers are often not tourists.

There are probably some more good reasons I can come up with... Nevertheless, Wikitravel is using the same CC-BY-SA license now, so feel free to copy text back and forth :) guaka 11:19, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I understand all that but still it seems to me pointless, to spread out user generated traveling sites. Have a nice day. -- 15:13, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Hitchhiking is not a method of travelling, but a method of transportation. Wikitravel would not want as detailed information as we have, and our information is exclusively about hitchhiking. --MrTweek 15:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Well not exclusively, we do have information about where to sleep, but we would never have information about 5 star hotels in articles here, or about museums and fancy restaurants and information about rock bottom budget food kinda moved to Trashwiki :) guaka 16:05, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

re: Phrasebooks, and a few questions

Hey, Kasper, I answered your question on my discussion page a few days ago - I'm very much used to answering on my own page as we do in Wikipedia ;-) Also, could you answer to my question regarding your comment here, please? And one last question: to discuss general questions, is the community portal talk the right spot? Cheers--Zenit 19:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

West Gate shopping center

How do u know its quite a hike from shopping center till pay-toll? its no more than 500m Luka85 20:36, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

I was staying with a local hitchhiker. Then I actually was there yesterday afternoon. It's a hike if you take the bridge. It's still a bit of a hike to cross the channel, not far... Will add my experiences later, with pics :) guaka 20:52, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

At who did u stay? maybe i know the guy Luka85 12:22, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Oh I know the guy (he studies archeology, right?). didnt knew he was on CS though Luka85 17:25, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

And how long did u wait on pay-tolls and till when did u got ur first ride? Luka85 18:23, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Pay tolls were not as great as e.g. in France. After 25 minutes or so with many many cars passing, mostly ignoring us, two trucks stopped. The Belgian dudes who were standing 100 meters further, right before the trucks, didn't bother to walk there. So after 1 minute I ran there and arranged a ride for me and Erga to the border. We had to split up between the trucks but since it was only a short distance, and some German was spoken by the Turkish truckers we were okay with that. guaka 21:04, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Didnt catch u with the belgian guys, they managed to stop turkish truck drivers before they arrived to pay-toll? Luka85 21:21, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Oh no, we were all right after the toll booths. The 2 trucks stopped. I was signalling the Belgians to go check if they can get a ride with them, but they didn't bother. So I went myself and scored the ride. guaka 21:38, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Re: Money

Yeah no prob! But do tell me, what would you like to be added? I myself am home now, after a long hitch from Norway to Spain, starting with 0.00 in my pocket! So I can say I'm a bit experienced with hitching with no money. I'm not really sure what to add to the article at the moment, since it still seems in it's early early stages, but if there's anything you're unsure but feel I may know, I'm MORE than happy to contribute!

But for now I'll make a short section on hitching without a dime. Edit as you seem appropiate!

Blogging

Template

Do you know where the Talk page is for the standard city template? I'd like to propose there to remove the "Places to visit" heading, as this leads new editors like Siberian Explorer to put in general tourism info; I thought we decided a couple of years back that Hitchwiki shouldn't compete with Wikitravel. CRCulver 17:46, 13 November 2010 (CET)

lol, I got today same thoughts. P.S. Where is guidelines what to write? Siberian explorer 18:06, 13 November 2010 (CET):

I don't think we even have guidelines here, somehow it just worked fine without guidelines - but that shouldn't stop anyone from starting them ;) There are pages like Hitchwiki:How we want to keep Hitchwiki though :) guaka 19:19, 13 November 2010 (CET)

Should we also delete ==places to avoid== from template? I think it's even more stupid than ==places to visit== Siberian explorer 20:08, 13 November 2010 (CET):